First record of the genus Acrodactyla Haliday (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of six new species

Two new species of the genusStrongylopsisBrauns, 1896, are described and illustrated,S. propodealisSheng & Sun,sp. nov.andS. punctataSheng & Sun,sp. nov., both collected from Mentougou, Beijing, China. An identification key to all known species ofStrongylopsisis provided.

In this study, Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) specimens have been evaluated. The specimens have been collected among 2007- 2009 during the research named determination of pollinator bee biodiversity of cherry orchards in Sultandagi reservoir (Afyonkarahisar- Konya). Therefore, malaise traps have been set up in three cherry orchards. 728 samples have been collected with sampling fortnightly in bud swell and green fruit periods and daily in blooming. As a result, a total of 30 species belonging to the Acaenitinae, Anomaloninae, Banchinae, Collyriinae, Cryptinae, Metopiinae, Ophioninae, Pimplinae and Tryphoninae subfamilies have been recorded. Xylophrurus augustus (Dalm.) is the first record for Turkish fauna. In this study, parasitoid- host relations have been also discussed.

1* Summary The present contribution is based upon the ichneumonids collected from eastern and northeastern part of Turkey between 1994–2007. A total of 16 species and subspecies have been recorded in belonging to Acaenitinae, Banchinae, Ctenopelmatinae, Cryptinae, Ichneumoninae, Metopiinae, Mesochorinae, and Pimplinae. Among them, Acroricnus seductor elegans Mocsary, Hoplocryptus femoralis (Gravenhorst, 1829), Ichneumon curtulus Kriechbaumer and Astiphromma splenium (Curtis, 1833) are new records for the Ichneumonidae fauna of Turkey. New distribution areas for previously known species were added. The zoogeographical characterization of the present species was established. In addition to the ecological notes for some of the species were evaluated.

Two species of Philobota (Lepidoptera Oecophoridae) have been confirmed to be present in New Zealand These are P chionoptera found near Napier and Cape Kidnappers and an unnamed species ANIC5 belonging to the P hydara group found at Ruakura Research Centre Hamilton In spring 2012 a light trap confirmed the presence of a selfsustaining population of the latter at Ruakura Emergence commenced 1 October peaked on 30 October and the last moth was trapped on 3 December Prior to the peak males dominated the female population by 151 while after the peak the ratio was reduced to 141 Both mated and unmated females were collected and the maximum fecundity was 120 eggs The moth was confirmed at a site 2 km from the Research Centre A parasitoid Anacis sp (Ichneumonidae Cryptini) was collected in a cage containing Philobota sp ANIC5 pupae

Recognition of the genus Habrocampulum Gauld, 1976 (Hymenoptera:Ichneumonidae: Anomaloninae) from Japan, with a new combination and a key to the species.

The discovery of large Pleistocene mammals at the Starunia ozokerite (named also earth wax) mine (the Ukrainian Carpathians) was a spectacular scientific event on a world scale. The initial discovery was made in 1907 when relics of party preserved mammoth and woolly rhinoceros were excavated. Later, in 1929, the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences organized a scientific expedition to that site, which resulted in discovery of unique, nearly completely preserved woolly rhinoceros carcass embedded in Pleistocene sediments. A specific combination of brine, oil and clays into which the animal had sunk, is responsible for almost perfect preservation of this animal. The specimens found in 1907 are exhibited at the Natural History Museum in Lviv, Ukraine, whereas the unique specimen excavated in 1929 is displayed at the Natural History Museum in Krakow, Poland. The three sites: Starunia, a small Ukrainian village in which the geopark with the museum and the tourist centre are planned to be developed and two historical towns: Lviv and Krakow, closely connected with the discoveries of extinct large mammals, will be the key sites at the planned, Ukrainian-Polish trans-border geotourist trail “Traces of large extinct mammals, earth wax, oil and salt: from Starunia to Krakow”. The trail will also include the sites where occurrences of ozokerite, salt, brine and oil are known, i.e., the substances which preserved the animal carcasses. These are: the historical rock-salt mines in Wieliczka and Bochnia (Poland), Kalush and Stebnik (Ukraine), the Polish resorts – Iwonicz-Zdroj and Rymanow-Zdroj and the most famous Ukrainian resort – Truskavets; one of the oldest oilfields in the world – Bobrka, where the Ignacy Łukasiewicz Memorial Open-Space Museum of Oil and Gas Industry is located and Boryslav oil and ozokerite field – the largest deposit in the Ukrainian Carpathians. The idea of Ukrainian-Polish trans-border tourist trail is strongly supported by geological, natural and cultural values of the Polish and the Ukrainian Carpathians.

The genus Spilopteron Townes, 1960 (Ichneumonidae: Acaenitinae) is reported for the first time from Vietnam. Five of the seven reported species are described as new, comprising: S. brunneum sp. nov., S. lamdongensis sp. nov., S. nigromaculatum sp. nov., S. tamdaoensis sp. nov., and S. tumidium sp. nov. In addition, two further species, S. flaviapicus Wang Huang, 1993, and S. fuscomaculatum Wang, 1988, are recorded for the first time from the country.

Four species of Mastrus Förster, 1869 are reported from China. Two, Mastrus nigrus Sheng & Zeng, sp. n. reared from Arge pullata (Zaddach) and Mastrus rugotergalis Sheng & Zeng, sp. n. reared from Diprion jingyuanensis Xiao & Zhang, are new to science. One, Mastrus deminuens (Hartig, 1838), is a parasitoid of Pachynematus itoi Okutani. A key to species of Mastrus Förster known in China is provided.

The LABELX (Label Annotation through Biodiversity Enhanced Learning) is an extension of the HERBIS NLP system reported previously (Heidorn & Wei, 2008). The objective of the system is to formaly structure output from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of the highly variable labels of natural history museum specimens. OCR errors are common in the OCR output. Genus and species names are particularly prone to errors. Records are preprocessed using a fuzzy-match algorithm to find and replace genus and species names, including those with OCR errors, and replace those with a constant token. Integers and strings that begin with Alphabetic characters and end with numbers are also replaced with tokens. LABELX generates structured XML data and RDF and makes corrections to OCR errors in some fields. The main algorithm is a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). This poster reports an enhancement to the previous system with a larger data set.

All members of the genus Lathrolestes Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Russian Far East are reviewed. Twelve new species of Lathrolestes are described from Russian Far East: L. anularius sp. nov., L. cruentocaudus sp. nov., L. fumipennis sp. nov., L. kasparyani sp. nov., L. kerzhneri sp. nov., L. levaya sp. nov., L. nigronitens sp. nov., L. palatynus sp. nov., L. pubescens sp. nov., L. sachalinensis sp. nov., L. sparsus sp. nov., L. tolstoyi sp. nov. An illustrated key to Russian Far East species is provided.

A new species of genus Enicospilus Stephens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae), Enicospilus fatimahae from Malaysia is described and illustrated. It differs from Enicospilus teleus Gauld and Mitchell by having a propodeum posteriorly reticulated, nine hamuli, and yellowish markings on the 4th tergite.

Aiura, a new genus of Campopleginae (Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae) and the species A. miri and A. turu are described from Campos do Jordão, SP, Brazil.

Xylophion sevrapek Villemant n. sp. (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) is described from Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu and compared to the two other described species of the genus, X. xylus (Gauld, 1977) and X. ketus (Gauld, 1977).

A comprehensive understanding of plant associations, especially in transition areas can be achieved by identification of vegetation and study of relationships between plant species and environment. Borders of ecotones and forest communities (Tiremrud basin in the southern part of Tonekabon, Iran) were found based on environmental factors such as elevation, slope and changes in floristic patterns. Totally, 44 plots (20 × 20 m) were collected by the transect method with at least one sample plot per contour line and 50 m interval. A total number of tree species was recorded separately in each sample plot. Herbaceous species were sampled based on the Brown-Blanket cover percentage and frequency of vegetative elements by 5 × 2 m2 micro plots in four corners and centre of each main plot. Four ecological groups were identified on altitudes 2070, 1236, 924, and 375 m above sea level with mean slopes of 43, 50, 40, and 59%, respectively. The first and fourth ecological groups were at the highest and the lowest elevations, respectively, while the second and third ones in the middle of the two groups. A comparison of ecological groups in terms of plant biodiversity indicated significant differences altogether. In terms of species diversity indices, Shannon-Wiener and Simpson-Pilo ​​revealed that the first, fourth, and second ecological groups had maximum, minimum, and average values, respectively. According to findings of this study, ecological groups had significant differences in terms of altitude factor.

Recently, effective atmospheric-angular-momentum (AAM) functions as calculated from National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) (formerly National Meteorological Center, NMC) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Reanalyses have become available for the years 1958 to 1998. Concerning the wind terms, the top level in the atmosphere used here is 10 hPa. Compared with earlier NMC model versions, which incorporate wind fields up to 100 hPa since 1976 and up to 50 hPa since 1981, the reanalyses have produced improved data series over a longer period than before. The axial AAM component χ3 is associated with changes in length of day (LOD). Motivated by better quality and continuity of the series AAM (NCEP) Reanalysis, the problem of the seasonal imbalances in the solid Earth–atmosphere axial angular momentum budget is re-examined. To assess better the estimates of the annual and semiannual oscillations in LOD and AAM and of the residual oscillations derived as difference series between LOD and AAM, the series of LOD data from three analysis centers [International Earth Rotation Service (IERS), GeoForschungZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena (JPL)] and of AAM data in terms of χ3(W), χ3(P) and χ3(P+IB) from four meteorological centers [NCEP, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the UK Meteorological Office (UKMO)] are used in this study. The main analysis steps were removing gaps, filtering out the seasonal oscillations, calculating optimal estimates of the parameters of the oscillations and calculating the difference series between the LOD and AAM systems as well as the residuals in the axial angular momentum budget in the LOD–AAM systems. The results derived as difference series between the different LOD, AAM and LOD–AAM systems show to what extent the variations reflect systematic differences and significant signals, respectively, which is important for future activities in this field.